Standard Deviation Bands

Input variables

"Price" - This can be Close, Open, High, Low, HL MidPoint, HLC MidPoint or HLCO MidPoint
"Length" - is the number of time periods used when computing SMA (Simple Moving Average) or TMA (Triangular MOving Average)

Calculation

"Standard Deviation Bands" are displayed as two bands: "Upper Band" and "Lower Band". The following formulas are used to calculate these:

where:

"D" is the number of standard deviations (two deviations)

From "Indicator Properties" you can change the settings for indicator:

You can set line color, thickness and style for "Upper Band" and "Lower Band". Also you can set the "Price" type and the "Length" used to calculate the PriceChangeAvg.

Standard Deviation Bands indicator on ESZ07 chart

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